old games we played as a child !

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just put down a couple of games u loved to play as kid -indoors /outdoors/

one of my favourites was playing dolls with my blue plastic tea set ..
and playing on my skates in the streets ..always bruised legs .
 

In the winter we played Fox and Geese.

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Things were wonderful when I was young and it was safe to play outside. Jail break,Hop scotch,jumping rope,getting wet under the fireplug etc. We also went inside if the weather was bad and played Monopoly and a lot of other board games.
 
We played scatterball which is a version of "tag" but played with a ball. You would throw the ball at a kid and hit them for them it be "it" and then they would have throw it at someone else. It was always a big, soft, ball, never a small hard one.

Kick ball, a form of baseball without the bat. Again using a big, soft, ball.

Red Rover
 
A ball bouncing game called "Stories."

A game called Russia (who knows why?) in which you throw a ball across the wall of a building and have to catch it again while doing increasingly difficult stunts.

A tag game called Ringalevio. I think that was a NY/NJ thing.

Indoor games also included Parcheesi and Checkers.
 
Huh, watched gurls skate, play hop scotch, jax, jump rope, play with dolls

Never got invited

I did get invited to play hide and seek once
But jus' that one time

I was never sought
 
On my street just about everyone had a flight of 4-5 steps leading up from the sidewalk by the road to the sidewalk up to the house. We played something called “stone school”. Everyone anywhere from 3-5 kids would sit in the lowest step. One would be the “Teacher”, get a pebble & put it in a hand behind their back. Then on the lowest step we’d take turns guessing which hand. If right we’d move up a step. Once we got moving up if we guessed wrong we had to move back one. Whoever got to the top step won, & they were the next Teacher. My steps were in the shade too. Amazing how long at a time we’d play that!
 
Another called “Rollie up to bat”, needed bat, softball & long yard. One would throw the ball up & hit it, trying to be careful it didn’t go out of the yard & into the street. Then the batter would lay the batter down crosswise & whoever got to the ball first had to roll it up to hit the bat. If it hit the bat & the batter didn’t catch it the person would be next up. Same if somebody caught a fly.Played that from after dinner till streetlights.
 
toffee said:
just put down a couple of games u loved to play as kid -indoors /outdoors/

one of my favourites was playing dolls with my blue plastic tea set ..
and playing on my skates in the streets ..always bruised legs .
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Did you play hockey or anything in your skates?
Were yours the kind that you fastened to your shoes?

Did you enjoy ice skating also?
I even really liked roller blading although I haven’t been for years.
 
us kids played that keesha but it wasnt called that - we called it knock down ginger '''' naughty but fun '
loved to ice skate at 12 yrs old -love to scrumpy lol ..
kiss chase was always a winner '':love:
we played fives little cubes had to do all these things with your hands to win a game '
and my fav was 2 balls up the wall -sounds rudey' but it wasnt hhahahah
 
Hopscotch, Sling shot, Kick Ball, and Double Dutch Jump Rope.

Anyone else remember playing Double Dutch Jump Rope? That was fun.

Basically, Double Dutch is a rope skipping exercise played when two ropes are turned in eggbeater fashion. While the ropes are turned, a third person jumps within.
 
Hand clap games. I've looked for the origins of this nonsense one we used to do thinking it might have German origins of some sort.

Ours went: ishi bishi otten botten, bobo for teeten toten, if not for totten tooten, ish bam boom.

Have found other other similar versions such as in this blog post and its comments, but nothing firm about the origins.

http://kaytmay.blogspot.com/2008/08/childhood-rhymes.html
 
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Olivia said:
Hopscotch, Sling shot, Kick Ball, and Double Dutch Jump Rope.

Anyone else remember playing Double Dutch Jump Rope? That was fun.

Basically, Double Dutch is a rope skipping exercise played when two ropes are turned in eggbeater fashion. While the ropes are turned, a third person jumps within.
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Yes on Double Dutch jump rope. Played for hours. Also Mother May I, hopscotch. Inside - checkers, rummy, rook, battleship. Played rook a lot because grandmother did not allw playing cards with faces.
 
When I was around 5, my brother & I made up a game.
We lived in a ghetto apartment. We'd put on socks & take turns running, then sliding up to a large window. The winner was the one who stopped sliding closest to the window. (yeah....you can see where this was going)
Well, my brother sorta won; he went through the window & he was OK - after 45 stitches in his arm.
 

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