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There was a suggestion on the 'The past is a different country' board that we had a thread about the old games we used to play.
I suggest old playground games as well as the ones that came out of one of those old coarse yellow cardboard boxes that we played on the red fringed table cloth after tea on Sunday !
Who remembers some of the skipping games ... and the rhymes that went with them ?
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Who remembers some of the skipping games ... and the rhymes that went with them ?
We had one while I was at primary school:
High, low, dolly, pepper!
Nell
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I still play all the old games & some new ones, with the children I work with. On occasion I have to teach playground games & usually get swamped by hoards of children all eager to learn something 'new'.
On one such occasion, I had to teach a child with an amputated leg, games she could easily access in the playground. So I decided on some good old fashioned clapping games. It wasn't until I started reciting 'did you ever did you ever in your long legged life...' that it occured to me that this would be slightly inappropriate ;D :D ;D
Good old fashioned board games rarely get played with young children nowadays...shame...so many friendship & social skills lost.
Debbie
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I remember a skipping rhyme that went something like this:
Lady, lady turn around, lady, lady touch the ground. But sadly it is all I can remember apart from all us girls lined up ready to jump in and take our turn as the previous girl jumped out at the other side.
Lincsbabe ;)
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Another 2 favourites were marbles and Jacks. Lincsbabe ;) ;)
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My mother and the neighbourhood children used to play a game where the rhyme went 'Jake, Jake bake a cake' and her youngest sister liked it so much her nickname became Jake- and the family still call her that.
We had Scrabble, Monopoly, Parchessi (a bit like Ludo), Snakes and Ladders, Candyland... all of which my children still play.
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One skipping game went
All in together girls
this fine weather girls
When we call your birthday
Please jump out January February March...
Trees
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The skipping game that I remember.....and I hope that this doesn't offend please!
Nebuchadrezzar, the King of the Jews
Bought his wife a pair of shoes
When the shoes began to wear
Nebuchadrezzar bought a chair
When the chair began to sag
Nebuchadrezzar........bought a
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And so on.
As each skipper answered the rhyme she could jump out of the rope.
Does anyone remember?
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Yes When the chair began to sag
Nebuchadrezzar bought a nag
when the nag began to bray
Nebuchadrezzar bought some hay
when the hay began to smell
Nebuchadrezzar bought a bell
when the bell began to ring
Nebuchadrezzar began to sing
Doh Ray me Fer so.
How about
Teddy bear Teddy bear come through the door
Teddy bear Teddy bear touch the floor
Teddy bear Teddy bear climb the stairs
Teddy bear Teddy bear say your prayers
Teddy bear Teddy bear switgh off the light
Teddy bear Teddy bear say good night
and I'm a little Girl Guide all dressed in blue
These are the things that I must do
Stand to attention
Salute the King... I just can't remember the rest anyone able to carry on?
Trees
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The skipping game that I remember.....and I hope that this doesn't offend please!
Nebuchadrezzar, the King of the Jews
Bought his wife a pair of shoes
When the shoes began to wear
Nebuchadrezzar bought a chair
When the chair began to sag
Nebuchadrezzar........bought a
??????
And so on.
As each skipper answered the rhyme she could jump out of the rope.
Does anyone remember?
Yeeeeees! Oh, and I'm back in the playground....!
We had another one:
"Cowboy Joe from Mexico,
Hands up! (Hands in the air)
Stick 'em up! (Point fingers like guns)
Drop your guns and pick 'em up! (touch the ground and jump back up)
Cowboy Joe from Mexico!" (Exit the rope ready for the next person to enter and begin the rhyme again....)
And boy, were you the bee's knees if you had the longest skipping rope!
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I used to love playing with my brother's Meccanno set (he was free to play with any of my dolls - funny he never took up my offer....!)
And I loved it when we used to get the Mamod steam engines out - I can still tmell the fumes from the stuff we used to burn and waiting to hear the hissing sound of the water boiling , then the test-spin of the fly-wheel (will it "catch" this time?).
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We used to play with tennis balls throwing them against a wall, saying one, two three o'leary, etc. Can't remember the rest.
Lizzie
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Oh Lizzie,
Yes...we (me and my sister) would tuck our skirt into our undies and play the ball aginst the wall game.
You had to throw the ball under arm...over arm...under yer leg.....over yer head....etc....and take turns catching it on the rebound.
But....the game never lasted very long because the thump-thump-thump up against the kitchen wall would get on Ma's nerves!
(shhhhhh.....and now I complain about the boys next door who play basketball untill....would you believe.......8 pm!.........I've turned into me mother!)
Indi ;D
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Oh Lizzie,
Yes...we (me and my sister) would tuck our skirt into our undies and play the ball aginst the wall game.
You had to throw the ball under arm...over arm...under yer leg.....over yer head....etc....and take turns catching it on the rebound.
But....the game never lasted very long because the thump-thump-thump up against the kitchen wall would get on Ma's nerves!
(shhhhhh.....and now I complain about the boys next door who play basketball untill....would you believe.......8 pm!.........I've turned into me mother!)
Indi ;D
Hi Indi,
I remember that one very well, like yesterday,I asked my granddaughter can she play 2 ball or even better 3 ball.
Her reply was "What's that game then Grandma?"
I can still play 3 ball now.
Bennett
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Anyone remember playing
LONDON spells LONDON !!!!!!!
like playing statues.
I was good at that in the playground.
Wish I was there now still playing the games.
Bennett
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Hand-stands, anyone remember doing that? We had competitions to see who could stay on our hands, feet against the wall, for the longest time ;D
Sue
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Hand-stands, anyone remember doing that? We had competitions to see who could stay on our hands, feet against the wall, for the longest time ;D
Sue
Yup, indeedy!
Then when you stood up properly you went all light-headed!
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That`s right!! ;D ;D ;D
Sue
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That`s right!! ;D ;D ;D
Sue
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I don't know if you'd call it a "game", but i do remember building go-karts oe "bogeys" with my brother and sister and assorted local kids.
We once build a rather palatial one, having accquired a proper car seat from and old vehicle my uncle was rebuilding.
The trouble with these things was the brake system - they generally didn't have one!
I remember we built one that was so big we wore ourselves out trying to get the thing moving - and we'd spent a good part of the summer holidays planning and building the darn thing! Still, it kept us off the streets i suppose.
Andy why do I recall that the summer holidays were one long, sunny experience in those days - we hardly ever had a rainy day, in fact I can't remember what we did on those occasions without daytime TV and screen games!
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Going back to playground games - does any one remember "French" skipping?
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Talking of hand stands, ;)
I have a photograph of my 2 daughters and niece,
ages 9/11/12.
All doing a hand stand.
When they all met up last year,
they had a bet who could still do them.
I have a picture of them in the same position, niece in the middle, 8)
they are in their late 30's 40 now. ::)
Still they did it, gave me such a laugh. :)
Memories eh !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(
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Loved French Skipping ;D
thought for a minute you said
French kissing :D
Bennett
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My brothers used to make their go-karts out of old
orange boxes,their brakes never worked either. ;D
True about the long summer days,
played out for hours.
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Loved French Skipping ;D
thought for a minute you said
French kissing :D
Bennett
Then there was French knitting ::)
and
French cricket ???
Those Froggies never did anything quite right did they?
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Did you do French Knitting Geoff??? :)
Sue
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go to
http://www.chatarea.com/HeanorDistrictLocalHistory
then go to miscellaneous section -street games is the last topic
Brings back some memories
Suz
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Loved French Skipping ;D
thought for a minute you said
French kissing :D
Bennett
Really, Bennett! :o
I used to wince when the leastic bands got higher and higher, they really hurt if they snapped at that stage! :-[
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Loved French Skipping ;D
thought for a minute you said
French kissing :D
Bennett
Really, Bennett! :o
I used to wince when the leastic bands got higher and higher, they really hurt if they snapped at that stage! :-[
ooops - the spelling's going a bit dodgy, must be the red wine kicking in!
Right, i'll love you and leave you all reminiscing and look forward to reading about all you childhood shenanigans tomorrow.
night, all! :P
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`night Stoney :)
Sue
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What was French cricket ???
Never heard of that one :P
night Stoney
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We used to play with tennis balls throwing them against a wall, saying one, two three o'leary, etc. Can't remember the rest.
We used to say:
Ipsy Gipsy lived in a tent
She couldn't afford to pay the rent
When the rentman came that day
Ipsy Gipsy ran away
then substituted the next move for the last word of each line -
Ipsy Gipsy lived in a skyball (throwing ball up in the air) and so on....
happy days, until someone complained about the thump thump on the wall
::) :D :D
Barbara
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Oh Oh ....yes...we used to play French Cricket.
It was a way of playing cricket if you had a very small garden.
You stood in front of the wicket with your legs together and the bat in front of your legs. The object was to stop the ball from touching your legs or the wicket.....in other words..you didn't get to swing at the ball but rather push it out of the way.......
Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
:P :P
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When we went on long journeys......for instance from Brum to Weston Super Mud......... :P........we would have to play games in the car to amuse ourselves. It took Dad 5or 6 hours to drive the 90 odd miles.
Our favourite was I Spy.
I was the eldest of the girls...and of course, the most intelligent! ;D .....so I would spy all kinds of obscure things
I spy with my little eye.....something beginning with P
Indi ;D
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Oh Oh ....yes...we used to play French Cricket.
Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
:P :P
Yes Indi! :D :D
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Long summer evenings playing kick-the-can.
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Hope you didn't scuff your shoes Erato ;D playing kick-the-can
we would have to wear our old shoes out to play,and not wear our school shoes,only to school. 8)
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How about Knocking Down Ginger......
Knock at the door and run away,
Live to play another day :D
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Does anyone remember Whips & Tops ? We used to decorate the top of our Tops with all different colours and patterns. I think it was my most favourite game of all.
I also remember French Cricket, 2 Ball, and 3 Ball, Skipping with a big long rope, and queues of girls all waiting their turn. Snobs (or Jacks). Handstands against the wall.
Tick (or Catch). What's the Time, Mr Wolf?
Making slides in the ice when it was winter.
Ohhhhhhhhhh........Happy Days!!!!!!!! :)
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Making slides in the ice when it was winter.
Ohhhhhhhhhh........Happy Days!!!!!!!! :)
That was by far the best. Also in the school playground in winter we used to get up a cry of "All crush into a corner to make it a little bit warmer" and a whole throng of kids would push and shove into a corner. Then of course there was the nasty trick where the bullies would sneak up behind some poor soul whos ears were red from the frost - and flick thier ears with a well aimed forefinger ------OUCH.
Denn
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hi! At school we used to play -
The big ship sails on the Alley Alley -o. ;D
In and out amongst the bluebells. ;D
Please Mr Crocodile may we cross your golden river. ;D
I wrote a letter to my love and put it in my pocket. ;D
amongst many more that I can't remember at the moment.
These were too cissy for the boys who played British Bulldog! :o :o
and I expect we all played kiss-chase!!! :-* :-* :-* :-*
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In 1986 I returned for a holiday in England with my wife and family, none of them had ever seen snow. It was quite something to introduce my wife and eldest to snowball fights (the youngest was only 6 months old at the time).
Denn - never too old for such frivolities.
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What about scotch we played many variations of that especially when they were building new houses in the village and we discovered plaster board made an easy source of "chalk" ;D
The boys used to join us in "Off ground touch" and "stuck in the mud" and oooh dear kiss chase ;D
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Used to love Chinese hopscotch as it could also be played in to house if it was wet outside- and could use chair legs instead of a person if there weren't enough people.
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"The farmer wants a wife"
and....
"One potato, two potato, three potato, four" to decide who was going "out" in which order.
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I used to hate it when we went to a birthday party and they played postmans knock; what a lot I had to learn.
Denn
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Other games we played at primary school, and which you may remember, are
Oranges and Lemons &
What Time is it Mr Wolf?
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What Time is it Mr Wolf?
DINNER TIME!!!
:D :D
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Ah!! The Good Old Days!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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We did "one potato, two potato" as well and "Dip dip dip my little ship sails on the water like a cup and saucer you are on it"
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anyone remember peaver beds
granda used to save all his old shoe polish tins for us
Elaine
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Oh this does bring back good memories! :)
I remember playing skittles and throwing the little tea cards to see how far you could throw them. ;D Never was much good at them. ;D
Hoppity. :D
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Sliding this topic sideways just a little...there was a rhyme, about 1960 I guess. Skipping rhyme or something of that kind?
Someone lost something...what?
It contained some of the popular TV characters of the time. I can remember only scraps. "Billy Bunter was too large so they sent for I'm in Charge." and there was Robin Hood, Ivanhoe and Laramie (MY Favourite, shows my age, doesn't it?)
Can anyone remember all of it? It drives me mad, not remembering.
...and my favourite street game was Tin Can Tommie.
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Sliding this topic sideways just a little...there was a rhyme, about 1960 I guess. Skipping rhyme or something of that kind?
Someone lost something...what?
It contained some of the popular TV characters of the time. I can remember only scraps. "Billy Bunter was too large so they sent for I'm in Charge." and there was Robin Hood, Ivanhoe and Laramie (MY Favourite, shows my age, doesn't it?)
Can anyone remember all of it? It drives me mad, not remembering.
...and my favourite street game was Tin Can Tommie.
Wow! :o A sideways step from your sideways step - I've never met anyone outside our family who remembers Laramie (Western TV series) !
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Hi!
This is how I remember it -
Bronco Layne had a pain so they sent for Wagon Train,
Wagon Train was no good so they sent for Robin Hood ,
Robin Hood lost his bow so they sent for Ivanhoe,
Ivanhoe killed a man so they sent for Big Cheyenne
Big Cheyenne was having tea so they sent for Laramie,
Laramie lost his cargo so they sent for Wells Fargo,
Wells Fargo lost its hunter so they sent for Billy Bunter,
Billy Bunter was too large so they sent for - I'm in charge!
I'm in charge was presumably Bruce Forsythe!!
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I used to love playing with my brother's Meccanno set (he was free to play with any of my dolls - funny he never took up my offer....!)
And I loved it when we used to get the Mamod steam engines out - I can still tmell the fumes from the stuff we used to burn and waiting to hear the hissing sound of the water boiling , then the test-spin of the fly-wheel (will it "catch" this time?).
I still have one of those in my cupboard which we bought for a shilling in a jumble sale when my son was about ten years old. It will soon be time to reveal it to my grandson.
David
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I remember many of the games already mentioned, but don't think anyone has yet mentioned the "hundred-a-side" football games that the boys used to indulge in, often using a battered old tennis ball. To my mind, that must have been much harder than using a regular sized football!
Going back to the "seasonal" pursuits - I used to hate it when the kids created slides on the frozen playground puddles - I once fell badly on one of these as a child and literally could not walk for a week. Even now (in my dotage) I dread the frosty mornings and won't take the dog out until it's thawed a bit, in case he pulls me over!
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I used to love playing with my brother's Meccanno set (he was free to play with any of my dolls - funny he never took up my offer....!)
And I loved it when we used to get the Mamod steam engines out - I can still tmell the fumes from the stuff we used to burn and waiting to hear the hissing sound of the water boiling , then the test-spin of the fly-wheel (will it "catch" this time?).
I still have one of those in my cupboard which we bought for a shilling in a jumble sale when my son was about ten years old. It will soon be time to reveal it to my grandson.
David
We used to have hours of fun with them. My brother bought a traction engine model some years ago which he brought round and set up on our patio - my son was fascinated with it as it hissed and spat and trundled round on the slabs!
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We used to have counting out games at school too. As well as eeny meeny miny mo, which every one seems to know, we had another that I remember -
Eenie meenie macaraca
Rare rah dominaca
Knickerbocka lollypoppa
Om pom push.
When I asked people at work if they remembered it, no-one could :-\
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Oh the memories...............my brothers meccano that I just loved though can't remember making anything special out of it. He never let me have a go with his crystal set......what a meanie..............lol
All the board games used to come out at Christmas.....ludo, snakes and ladders and lottor -home version of bingo/lottery. My brother had an old conjuring set (I've got it now Dad's died - brother didn't want anything). It was always Dad who was the conjurer and I seem to remember actually believing that he shoved a nail through his finger..................lol
The Man from Laramie ? Oh I remember that !
Suddenly I'm starting to feel a little bit old..................lol
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Oh Mary Lou, not The Man from Laramie with Jimmie Stewart! Oh, no!
Laramie for me can only be Slim Sherman and Jess Harper (John Smith and Robert Fuller) There was also the great Hoagy Carmichael - my Dad went to hear him perform at the London Palladium - and lovely cuddly Spring Byington.
Laramie rules!
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Sliding this topic sideways just a little...there was a rhyme, about 1960 I guess. Skipping rhyme or something of that kind?
Someone lost something...what?
Lucy Locket lost her pocket??? Just trying to rmember the rest now... ::)
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Hi
I remember it as a nursery rhyme, but not as a game -
Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it;
But ne'er a penny was there in it,
But the ribbon round it.
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Similar game circle facing in hands out behind It walks around while singing I sent a letter to my mother but on the way I dropped it one of you have picked it up and put it in your pocket it isn't you it isn't you etc until Its you with a tap on the hands..well OK a slap... both run round the circle back to the empty place last back is new, or continues to be, It
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WELL !
I have started something with this thread !
I can remember lots of the games mentioned, especially the playground games.
No-one has yet mentioned marbles, which as a child in London we used to play on those patterned drain covers everyone had outside their house, for 'rodding through' ! They had diamond patterns on, and a hole at each end for removing, which made satisfactory wells for the marbles to land in.
Then there were all those games you could play with a 2' long loop of string on your fingers and thumbs. I can still do 'chicken bum'
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Then there were all those games you could play with a 2' long loop of string on your fingers and thumbs.
Think it was called Cat's Cradle- a sort of hand version of Chinese Hopscotch.
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What regional names do you have for "Marbles" we had "Allies" and I think Geordie's had Pinkers or something like that I seem to remember The Spinners singing "Ur Johnie'slost his pinker"
Were peavers the Scottish version of Hop scotch?
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What regional names do you have for "Marbles" we had "Allies" and I think Geordie's had Pinkers or something like that I seem to remember The Spinners singing "Ur Johnie'slost his pinker"
Were peavers the Scottish version of Hop scotch?
In Warwickshire, we referred to them as "marlies", we had 1-ers, 2-ers and 4-ers (value depended on the size of the marble).
The playground drains were our favoured areas for a game of marlies - we rolled our marbles down and if your marble ran and settled straight onto the ridges you got it back at the end of the game. If it ran and settled on the hinge you were allowed a second go to get it onto the ridges. If any missed the target they were forfeit!
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I preferred those marbles with coloured swirls inside, but if I remember aright, the big plain ones were called allies, and were rarer, and therefore had more swapping power !
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I preferred those marbles with coloured swirls inside, but if I remember aright, the big plain ones were called allies, and were rarer, and therefore had more swapping power !
Yeah - if you had a regular-sized marble with multiple swirls of colour in the glass they had more value, as you say.
I tried to get my son interested in them when he was a lad, but he just used to hoard them in a glass cookie jar. They now make a very effective door-stop! :P
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Then there were all those games you could play with a 2' long loop of string on your fingers and thumbs.
Think it was called Cat's Cradle- a sort of hand version of Chinese Hopscotch.
I remember Cat's cradle! You needed a partner for that, but there were some you could do solo - Like Eiffel Tower and The Parachute.
And I can still remember how to do them!
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We called our conkers 1 ers 2 ers etc did you have anything special to harden yous up?
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soak 'em in vinegar !
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Conkers, marbles, skipping loved them all, we also used to play 'twosie' this was 2 balls against the wall accompanied by singing :D someone else mentioned this as two ball, we also used to play elastics, someone would have a large piece of elastic, 2 girls would stand with it around their ankles and we would had to follow the leader, whatever she did, we did, and we used to sing half a pound of tuppence rice, half a pound of treacle ;D Mr Wolf, Queenie Queenie who's got the ball I loved it all
Good memories ;D
Jane
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I remember playing the Whip. You had a long line all holding hands and ran round the playground. Those at the end of the line running faster and faster. Woe betide you if you were on the end of the line and couldn't hold on ;D
Think the teachers stopped it in the end - too many bleeding knees
Jean
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I remember in primary school we girls used to swap beads.
I mean single ones from broken necklaces etc.
I've still got mine 55 years on !! They are lovely, all shapes and sizes,
all different colours and patterns, also the odd 'diamond' or other jewel
that looked pretty.
Also in the playground we played something called Statues (?). When you
were caught you had to stay in one position and not move until one of your
team came and touched you on the arm to release you.
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I remember playing the Whip. You had a long line all holding hands and ran round the playground. Those at the end of the line running faster and faster. Woe betide you if you were on the end of the line and couldn't hold on ;D
Think the teachers stopped it in the end - too many bleeding knees
Jean
That explains all the scars on my knees LOL!!! ;D ;D ;D
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I remember playing the Whip. You had a long line all holding hands and ran round the playground. Those at the end of the line running faster and faster. Woe betide you if you were on the end of the line and couldn't hold on ;D
Think the teachers stopped it in the end - too many bleeding knees
Jean
Gosh - yes! I remember that - it was deadly! I think if you came off the end you went back to the beginning of the line and the next person became the unfortunate victim at the end of the whip!
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Hardly anyone has mentioned indoor games ... did none of us play indoors ?
I can remember being allowed to turn the kitchen table upside down, and with an old sheet tied onto the broom, it was a pirate ship ! I even had the pirates hat, made of newspaper with a skull and crossbones drawn on in blue crayon that was also used for labelling parcels ?
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Indoor "play" was usually reading books and comics. Sometimes we would play board games, but my brother and sister were 7 and 5 years older than me, respectively, so if I wasn't outside playing with my peers I didn't have much chance with my siblings, who considered themselves too grown up for my sort of games! Sigh!
We did occasionally play ping-pong on the dining table, but we inevitably managed to bat the ball into the open fire (even if the fireguard was on!) and would watch aghast as the ball melted and burst into flames.
We used to play darts out in the light-well or in the workshop - Dad used to play with us and take on all three kids!
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Do kids these days do jig-saws ? I used to get a new one each Christmas, and looked forward to them ! (I've still got them !)
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We had a"barn" in the school yard so unless the weather was particularly bad we still played all the normal games 2balls scotch but in the barn The barn was a shelter with two solid sidesand pillars on the other two. At home we put an old blackout curtain over two dining chairs to make a den (Wendy house or raided the larder and set up a shop on a chair..mum used to collect all the little sample packets and tins for my shop. Do you remember the sample tins of polish the kleeneze man used to leave? Then there were dolls tea parties I can remember using soft green soap for jelly OK till a freind tasted it ;D
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The "One. two, three O'Leary" with balls being thrown at the wall went...
One, two, three O'leary
Four, five, six O'Leary,
seven, eight, nine O'Leary
Ten O'Leary catch the ball!
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Somewhere in the house I've got that book written by the Opies about childrens singing games and rhymes ...
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Do you remember the dolls and the cut out clothes you used to get for them, you could change outfits all day long!! Also Tiny Tears and I was lucky enough to have a Silver Cross pram, all with hand knitted outfits and pram blankets ;D
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Board games I remember:
Ludo
Chinese chequers
Draughts
Halma
... and who remembers the animals on the happy families cards ? And Mr and Mrs Bun, the Baker and his family ...
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Do you remember the dolls and the cut out clothes you used to get for them, you could change outfits all day long!! Also Tiny Tears and I was lucky enough to have a Silver Cross pram, all with hand knitted outfits and pram blankets ;D
I was just going to put a message on about those cut-out dolls! I was thinking about them this afternoon - I remember we used to get a different outfit printed on the back of the Bunty comic each week!
Board games - Sorry; Ludo; Snakes and ladders, Cluedo (in later years!)
Does anyone remember a boardgame called SCOOP! ?
My sister's boyfriend had it, you had to build up the front page of a newspaper by collecting Crime stories etc. and adverts. I seem to remember there was a carboard cut-out of an old black telephone which you dragged a knob across and a symbol came up on the dial to tell you which story you could choose. All the story cards were printed with proper stories - we used to spend ages reading all the fine print and there was a battle to see who would be the first to get the Waveney beans advert......simple pleasures!
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Just found a piccie of Scoop!
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Scoop is still a firm family favourite here and Totopoly the horse racing game
Our favourite must be the card game Pit or possibly Whot
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We liked Whot and Syllabex
(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9559/whotos7.jpg)
:)
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Scoop is still a firm family favourite here and Totopoly the horse racing game
Our favourite must be the card game Pit or possibly Whot
Totopoly - saw one of those games go on tv antiques show :o wish we had kept ours!!! worth quite a bit if the box is in reasonable nick.
I taught all my girls how to play 2 balls, elastic and cats cradle. My mum taught them how to whip a top! But they loved dressing up paper dolls. My cousin and I used to cut out old catalogues belonging to her mum and then make our own cloths for them.
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Love all these replies,
some games I have never heard of,very interesting to read.
My indoor games,
were Ludo,and Snakes and Ladders,
when my brother and I played with our dear Granny,
we used to make her go down the ladders as well as the snakes ;D
Thats naughty I know, but we used to fall off the chair laughing, :)
she soon cottoned on though. :D
She taught me how to play rummy and whist.
Happy childhood memories.
I liked playing snap,that was so noisy.
When we were older, we used to read the dictionary,and read out the meanings,so you had to guess the word.
I was always good at spelling.
Bennett
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Enjoyed reading this thread...
In my area, kick the can, would be kick a tin, mob all out...remember great fun as kids in different teams in a small cul de sac come council close 1960's
Gambo's had great fun with makeshift ones my nan made, oh what memories, loved my nan, bonfire night, guy fawkes...penny for the guy...
Jump the poles...who could get them all, depending on what age, and what height you were!
2 ball games...one, two three o leary...five six seven o leary...eight nine ten o leary catch 2 balls!
Then it would go on as above but you would have to go over, then under , then slamsies then under leg etc, depending on what time of day you would get told off by mam...
American skipping as we called it, elastic all knotted together...jump this way... that way... get tangled, great jump, twist and out...expertise ;D Don't think I could now though...although....would like to try 8)
Mousetrap was another good un, but long winded to set up...
Cas
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One card game I didn't enjoy was Lexicon never did get into that so ours is still in good shape. Does anyone remember Rail road You moved a train along a track you had to throw a dice and get a six to buy a piece of rail then move the train until you ran out of track and got another six there were all sorts of hazards along the way that was fun
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One card game I didn't enjoy was Lexicon never did get into that so ours is still in good shape. Does anyone remember Rail road You moved a train along a track you had to throw a dice and get a six to buy a piece of rail then move the train until you ran out of track and got another six there were all sorts of hazards along the way that was fun
Hubby had this as a youngster - and lots of other boardgames, which we seem to have accquired as his parents were clearing out before downsizing.
Careers was (and is) a family favourite!
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Thank you Beverley and Cas for the words to the O'Leary rhyme.
We used to play another game but whether it had a name or not I don't know. We used to stand with our hands on the bicycle rack (no bikes in them most of us didn't have bikes) and someone would hold one of our legs out behind us, then we had to jump up and somehow put the spare leg over the top of the other one. What the point was I've no idea.
Lizzie
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Hi Lizzie,
We used to sing "cobbler cobbler mend my Shoe(jump leg over) get it done by half past two( jump it back)
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Trees, I think that's what I'm thinking about. Very strange game when you think about it. Would probably be banned now on health and safety grounds.
Lizzie
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At my school, in the playground, there was a small flight of seven steps, so we invented a game called 'days of the week'. You started at the top step (which was Sunday) and the caller would call out 'Thursday' ... you then had to jump down four steps and land on 'Thursday' without toppling off. Going upwards was worse ... I remember I could do Saturday (bottom) up to Tuesday (five steps up) with a run at it, but one girl who ended up in the county athletics high jump team, could do Saturday all the way up to Sunday ...
Wouldn't be allowed nowadays ... H & S has ruined so many things that were fun !
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My mother taught me her London version of O'Leary
One, two, three o'lairy
My ball's down the airey (the area in front of the basement )
Don't forget to give it to Mary (mum's name!)
Early in the morning.
We used washing line (bought at Woolies) to make skipping ropes and chalked hop scotch on the paving stones. Cheap and cheerful fun.....kept us happy for hours.
Nanny Jan
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Can you believe kids today, who have so much in the way of material things compared to what we had, when they say "I'm bored!!!"
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Can you believe kids today, who have so much in the way of material things compared to what we had, when they say "I'm bored!!!"
That's probably because they don't have to use their imagination or brains!
When you think about the games we played as kids it involved both of the above - not like today where most games require you to "plug it in" and "flick switches"!
And yet, even now on occasion, you might see small children playing with the box a gift arrived in, rather than it's contents!
We also had a lot more freedom in our youth - I remember being out the house from sun-up to sun-down. You couldn't do that nowadays - says a lot about our sick society!
I don't remember my Mum and Dad getting too stressed (or they didn't show it!) as long as I didn't go near traffic, water or talk to strangers. I also usually had the family dog with me - he'd have had the leg off anyone who came near!
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In the winter we used to take the lid off the metal grabage can and use the lid to slide down the hill (worked even better when the handle 'accidentally' came off). Everyone had these metal bins and sometimes they were better than sleds (like when the snow was getting a bit scarce in places).
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It was the version we played.
1 2 3 O'leary
4,5 6 O'leary
10 O'leary catch the ball.
we played dipping games, as well, lady, baby, gipsy,queen, elephant monkey tangerine. out spells OUT.
eeny meeny maceracka aero domino, alabama chew tobacco ping pong push. and who ever got push was OUT
Skipping we used to play a lot to various rhymes.
all very good exercise by the way.
used to play hopscotch, and rounders, double ball against the wall. all good for co-ordination.
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My grandfather taught me Nine Man's Morris during the 1940's.
Chas
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Chas thats another enjoyable game did you play Chinese chequers too and Go?
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I remember using my mother's clothes maiden [airer] with a sheet over it, as a tent.
My older child [SHE'S 33!]asks for all the old board games. She intends playing them with my grand daughter, who is far too fond of the TV!
In recent years I have bought her Twister, as well as monopoly[de luxe edition in a wooden box with metal figures] and Scrabble.
Kooky
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Chinese Chequers, I still have the original! My daughters played it and soon my grandson will too
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I love this thread, its reinded me of games we used to play.
we also used to put a tennis ball in the leg of a pair of tights and stand against a wall with our legs apart and swing the ball over our shoulders and between our legs to bang against the wall - now that WAS a pointless one.
Outside on the street, we used to draw a box on the road, the size depended on how many played it, and you had to slowly ride your bike avoiding everyone else and not putting your foot on the floor. You rode as close to someone else as possible to make them lose their balance so they would be out. As more and more were out, the box would get smaller and smaller until it was about 2 meters square with two of you in it. You were also Out if you went out of the box. We called this swervey, and it was actually harder than you think. I was the only girl that used to play with about 6 boys!! :D
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Our version of "I'm a little Girl Guide all dressed in blue" (Dublin in the 1960s) was
I'm a little Girl Guide all dressed in blue
These are the actions that I have to do
Salute to my master
Bow to the queen
And run around the corner
To buy an icecream (at this point, one jumped out of the rope, ran around the back of one of the girls twirling the rope and jumped back in)
There was also another ditty for several girls skipping together on a long rope
All in together girls
This fine weather girls
When we count six
Do your best splits
One, two, three, four, five, six (at which point all the girls had to jump up and come down with one leg on either side of the rope)
Salute the King
There seemed to be some 'magical' sign each year to bring out the skipping ropes, and other games also had their seasons.
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Jump the poles
. . . wouldn't be allowed today - politically incorrect. As is another one we used to pursue . . . . dyke jumping.
Not a game – but something we did on, I think, 1st May – you dressed up (usually something like your father’s cap), and went around singing “Climbing up the wall, knocking down the spiders”. Can’t remember the words, but think it could have ended: “Then we’ll have a rare old stew”. It may have been a local thing; but the spiders definitely weren’t the impsy-wimpsy ones!
john
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Our skipping ryhme went (in Torquay)
Jelly on the plate
Jely on the Plate
Wibble,wobble,wibbble, wobble
Jelly on the Plate
Sausage on the Floor
Sausage on the Floor
Pick it up, Pick it up
Sausage on the Floor
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LOL I thought this thread was addressed to me for a moment! :D
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I loved Kick the Can, Hopscotch, 1,2,3 O'Leary, Ludo, Monopoly(for hours on end) and my friend's electric train set. Oh, the memories!
Do you remember "Beetle"? All you needed was paper, pencil and one dice. You had to throw a 1 to draw the body, 2 for the head, 3 for the eyes, etc. My mum used to draw the most glamorous beetles with long curly eyelashes, jewelry and high heeled shoes!
Arkay
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When we played Beetle it was 6 for a body, 5 for a head -nothing else could be added until you had a body and head, then 4 for a tongue, 3 for each feeler, 2 for each eye and 1 for each leg.
Still do beetle drives for the kids -and they love it
Suz