Ludo, tiddley winks ... remember the old games ?

[Trees]

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

[WHS1899]

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!

[Lydart]

Somewhere in the house I've got that book written by the Opies about childrens singing games and rhymes ...

[Nutty1966]

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 

[Lydart]

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 ...

[stoney]

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 

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!

[stoney]

Just found a piccie of Scoop!

[Trees]

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

[Ecneps]

We liked Whot and Syllabex