What types of GAMES did you PLAY as a kid?

Keesha

Keesha

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Mine were:

Red Light / Green Light
Red Rover
Nicky, Nicky Nine Doors
Hide ‘n Seek
Road Hockey
Hoola Hoops
Hop Scotch
Skipping
Jumpsies ( ? )
Those scoopy things that you threw & caught balls with
Badminton

Just to name a few.
 

Red light/green light
stoop ball
hand ball
jump rope, Chinese jump rope, double dutch
Badminton
Tennis
Monkey in the middle
 
"Those scoopy things that you threw & caught balls with" ...Lacrosse?

Baseball, 3 flies up, and various forms of football depending on how many of our friends were outdoors at the same time, and, more importantly, what they were wearing. (Most of them weren't allowed to get their Sunday clothes muddy.)

I remember playing Duck, Duck, Goose in kindergarten a few times.
 
I guess I'm the oddball. Never liked competitive games (at school), no good at sports, so none of the things mentioned above, except maybe hide and seek.

It was always just the neighbor's two boys and I, up until about 10 years old. We lived on a highway that was too busy for bike riding even, so we were pretty much confined to our two properties, but we had almost 3 acres between us.

We just made up stuff as we went along. Like making mazes in tall weed patches. Making tepees out of corn stacks. Digging roads and tunnels for model cars in dirt piles, catching tadpoles. Walking railroad rails. Climbing trees. Exploring things on the property.

It was fun trying to remember what the heck we did all that time. lol
 
Oh I've put all my list on the other thread:D..but Nancy you reminded me too of walking on the railroad line ( it was disused of course)..but it ran behind our house, so we had fairly easy access to it, and we'd walk along the lines thinking we would eventually land in another country in our minds..and in reality we'd only walked about 3 miles.
 
The fun we had as kids, not to mention the exercise we got. Remember when it was time for supper and you would hear all the moms yelling at their offspring to "come home now" and we had to reluctantly stop playing our game.
 
Hug-a-Skunk
Lawn Darts (throwing a spiked dart into the air over your opponent)
Step On Some Crack
Jumpdope
HopIrish
Nicky, Nicky, Give Me A Hickey
What Cliff?
Kitty Toss
Bat the Beehive
Will It Go Boom?
Sewer Spelunking
 
Radish, you must have grown up in NY or NJ. I think those are the only places that had "stoops." (I remember playing it, growing up in NJ).

Other games I remember:

Ball bouncing games, such as Russia, and Stories.
Monkey in the Middle
Hopscotch
Jumping rope
Monopoly
Card games: War, Pisha-Pesha, Rummy
Hide and Seek
Tennis, when I got in my teens
 
I remember playing dodgeball against the shed wall until my brothers and sister got tired of trying to hit me! :playful:

Most of the time we were using our imagination to recreate adventures or situations that we had read in stories or seen on television.
 
Anything we could.......from sunup to sundown.

There were a fair number of kids in my neighborhood and something was always going on. There were ball games that sometimes the girls were allowed to join in. We also played a lot of "cowboys and Indians" and "cops and robbers". We liked board games. Hide and seek was popular. Jacks, pick-up-stix, and marbles were always at hand.
 
Cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, hide-n-seek, kick-the-can, crochet, lawn darts, Frisbee, catch (baseball and softball), horseshoes, bocce ball, soccer, tag, skip rope, and many others I have long forgotten about.
 
learned to play cards (hearts, spades & pinochle) on summer vacations at the Jersey shore. if we were down the shore for 1-2 weeks, it was bound to rain at least 1 day making beach a no go. this was WAY before any electronic games and TVs in beach houses. my aunt would yell at her brother (my dad) for not LETTING us win. he never rubbed our noses in it but when a hand of hearts hit the point where we realized there was no way to stop him... he did gloat just a tad!:p
 
have done a little non-productive googling. several years ago, there was a list of typical games played at NJ day camps that should be BANNED. pretty much everything either ruined self-esteem (dodge ball) or put an eye out (anything involving a projectile.

off to start a new thread!
 
Wow...I've never even heard of half of these games you guys and gals are talking about playing...lol

Jacks
Hide and seek
Pick up stix...at grandma's
Mostly, I remember riding our bikes all over the neighborhood.

I was the youngest of 3 kids...so whatever was happening, I was not allowed/or wanted tagging along.
 
9 to 12.....Catch the girl kiss the girl.

16 onwards......Mothers and Fathers. 😊
 

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