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Watching M*A*S*H tonight, and Hawkeye was playing Marbles and Hopscotch.

I used to love Hopscotch, curb baseball, Red Rover, Dodge Ball, Hide-N-Seek, and so many others.

What games did you play?

Most of those...plus jump rope and chinese jump rope, kick the can, cops and robbers (or was it cowboys and Indians?), tag, marco polo....

SMLCHNG wrote:Watching M*A*S*H tonight, and Hawkeye was playing Marbles and Hopscotch.

I used to love Hopscotch, curb baseball, Red Rover, Dodge Ball, Hide-N-Seek, and so many others.

What games did you play?

Hide and Seek in the very last light of the day as the world cooled down from the summer heat.

Dodge Ball up against the brick gym wall hoping I wasn't the first one picked off.

Red Rover in second grade in the clover field out past the playground where we only allowed with an accompanying adult.

King of the Ride, a game sure to be banned in the present day, where we climbed into the center section of the merry-go-round, spinning as fast as it could go powered by 10 pairs of third grade legs and fought our way to the pinnacle. Great fun....sort of scary and more then one copatriot ended up puking with motion sickness.

Dirtbomb fights!!!
Especially right after the road got graded, leaving piles of ammo on both sides.

We also use to chase the mosquito truck...that explains a lot eh?

After the baseball games at the park we would play CupBall.
Just ball up a paper cup and hit it with your hand.
And you can get a runner out by throwing it at him!!
Played a lot of wiffle ball too.
Sandlot football with 2 to 3 on each team was always fun...Go loooong on every play!

Got into BB gun fights briefly do you have to ask?

sonofabeach wrote: Got into BB gun fights briefly do you have to ask?

Yes I do....did you shoot your eye out?

Over the line
Three flies up
Woofle Ball
Two hand touch football, that ALWAYS turned into tackle
Dodge Ball
Kung Foo Fighting-- the Oogas Vs. Noogas please don't ask... 6th grade
Baseball
Baseball
Baseball
Tag
Ditch
Hide from car headlights after dark... cops didn't think it was funny

What do you expect from a generation that only got 3 TV chanels?

All of yours, Angel Penny, and some of Kath's, too! Ahhhhhh, the innocence! Too soon, it turned into Truth or Dare, Post Office and Spin the Bottle.

I am not making this up....

We played "Hot Col Buttered Beans"..... We took a leather belt and someone would hide it in the yard - then the rest of us would look for it and whoeverfound it first got to whip everybody weith it until they got to base.

Therapy is expensive ... bubble wrap is cheap

I was much happier when we all switched to kick the can!!!!

I was pretty good at elastics ..

But most of the time I could be found on a bicycle or skateboard

mermaidindisguise wrote:I am not making this up....

We played "Hot Col Buttered Beans"..... We took a leather belt and someone would hide it in the yard - then the rest of us would look for it and whoeverfound it first got to whip everybody weith it until they got to base.

Therapy is expensive ... bubble wrap is cheap

I was much happier when we all switched to kick the can!!!!

Sadistic little things, your friends!

I know - I don't know who made it up..... but I am guessing he has his own adult toy store business about now....LOL!!!!!

I didn't live in the best section of town - and back then you had no monster playgrounds and chuck-E-Cheese... we played in the alley and the parking lot of the American Legion!!!

Many of the above plus
SPUD
ghosts in the graveyard
running bases
500
shadow tag
flashlight tag
statuemaker
redlight greenlight
mother may I
simon says
jarts

Tiki Bar wrote:Many of the above plus
SPUD
ghosts in the graveyard
running bases
500
shadow tag
flashlight tag
statuemaker
redlight greenlight
mother may I
simon says
jarts

Ohhhhh.. I remember many of yours too!!

. I can't believe no one has mentioned " Jacks " . .! !

. . we played Singles . . Doubles . .In the basket . .Over the fence . .around the world. . double bounce . .

. ummm . .there were more. . just can't bring them into the memory bank right now . .

. oh, there was some kind of advantage or disadvantage of throwing them out and having two stack onto each other. .! !

. .I loooooved Jacks. . ! !

balcony girls wrote:. I can't believe no one has mentioned " Jacks " . .! !

. . we played Singles . . Doubles . .In the basket . .Over the fence . .around the world. . double bounce . .

. ummm . .there were more. . just can't bring them into the memory bank right now . .

. oh, there was some kind of advantage or disadvantage of throwing them out and having two stack onto each other. .! !

. .I loooooved Jacks. . ! !

Oh man....I loved Jacks! Can't believe I forgot those! I actually found a set a few years ago with real metal jacks and the rubber ball...not that cheap foam imitation one that they started using with plastic jacks. I taught my kids at school how to play...even the boys!

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:Oh man....I loved Jacks! Can't believe I forgot those! I actually found a set a few years ago with real metal jacks and the rubber ball...not that cheap foam imitation one that they started using with plastic jacks. I taught my kids at school how to play...even the boys!

. .do you remember any of those " variations " . . ? ? . .remember any I forgot . . ? ?

I sucked at Jacks. I usually ended up throwing the ball at my sister cause she was good at it.

SMLCHNG wrote: I sucked at Jacks. I usually ended up throwing the ball at my sister cause she was good at it.

. . . .

. .well, I hope she got back atcha by putting a stray " Jack " in your shoe. . ! !

balcony girls wrote:. I can't believe no one has mentioned " Jacks " . .! !

. . we played Singles . . Doubles . .In the basket . .Over the fence . .around the world. . double bounce . .

. ummm . .there were more. . just can't bring them into the memory bank right now . .

. oh, there was some kind of advantage or disadvantage of throwing them out and having two stack onto each other. .! !

. .I loooooved Jacks. . ! !

Oh me too! And we used a "superball" to get a better bounce...

Besides around the world, we planed Airplane..where you bounce the ball up and catch it before it bounces.

And what about marbles...tried to get the other's cool shooters...

BahamaBreeze wrote:Besides around the world, we planed Airplane..where you bounce the ball up and catch it before it bounces.

. .that's it . . ! !

. .we called it " No Bounce " . .! !

. .YAY. . ! !

. .I think we need a Jack-Phlockin to declare the Official Champion . .! !