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

[jc26red]

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  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.

[bennett]

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
Thats naughty I know, but we used to fall off the chair laughing,
she soon cottoned on though.
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

[Cas (stallc)]

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  Don't think I could now though...although....would like to try 

Mousetrap was another good un, but long winded to set up...

Cas

[Trees]

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

[stoney]

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!

[LizzieW]

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

[Trees]

Hi Lizzie,
We used to sing "cobbler cobbler mend my Shoe(jump leg over) get it done by half past two( jump it back)

[LizzieW]

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

[Lydart]

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 !