Memorable childhood games played with friends

[Jazzy1]

What were your favorite childhood games to play with friends/family/neighborhood kids?

 

[Pinky]

Jump rope, hopscotch, jacks, marbles ..

 

[CallMeKate]

I played Mystery Date with my sister, Rock'em Sock'em Robots and Operation with my brothers, Candy Land with my parents, and Rebound with my grandma.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Checkers, Chutes and Ladders, Mister Potato Head, Cooties, etc…

Most of the time we just hung out and used our imagination to create our own imaginary world, swimming, sledding, explored the surrounding area and used playground equipment.

 

[robin416]

Hide & Seek. They could never find me because I climbed on the garage roof where they couldn't see me.

 

[Ronni]

Pick up sticks, tiddlywinks, hopscotch, dodge ball. We also played made up games with dolls where we took care of our babies, cowboys and Indians (not politically correct at ALL!) hide and seek, chase and tag.

 

[Jazzy1]

Hide-and-Seek
Cowboys & Indians
Kick the Can
Simon Says
Jacks
Candy Land
Scrabble

 

[hollydolly]

Jump rope, hopscotch, jacks, marbles ..

Same ! ....... and most important of all the swing park...

 

[Rae]

Monopoly
Chess
Checkers
Softball (I wasn't very good at that game but did play with friends.)
Swimming
Jacks
Jump rope
Hide n Seek

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I still remember this one.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[josephine]

Jump rope, hopscotch, marbles, and cat's cradle... these were all such a huge part of my childhood.

 

[debodun]

Played with my what?

 

[RadishRose]

Red light, green light
Giant Steps
Kick the Can

 

[jujube]

Here's something I didn't realize what my mother was talking about until years later:

We were obsessed for a while with horror movies and the hot pastime one summer was to have our own "Horror House" in the attic and invite all the neighborhood kids to come and be scared.

My mom kept insisting that we call it a "spook house" or a "fright house", but not a "horror house". We couldn't fathom why not....

It was many years later that I realized that with our Hoosier accents, we weren't pronouncing it "HAW-ror" house (with two syllables) but "wh0re" house (with the solitary one).

OKAYYY...there goes the neighborhood.

Funny, the things you remember...

 

[ChiroDoc]

Hide & Seek. They could never find me because I climbed on the garage roof where they couldn't see me.

Yeah, "Hide and Seek" for sure! We'd have about 10 neighborhood kids participating.
Then after awhile when a few couldn't be found, we'd yell, "Allie-Allie-in-come-free" which meant that everyone could come out of hiding and could meet up, that that round was over. And when you got thirsty, you'd drink right outta the garden hose.

One of my personal favorites was "Spin the bottle"...