What is your all time favorite game to play as a child or as an adult?

[debm55]

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As a child---Shutes and ladders, Trouble, Operation, Hide and Seek
As an adult-Solitaire, battleship --yes I still like to play --and Trivial Pursuit

Games can be indoor or outdoor games.

[whathehell]

1. "No laughing, no talking, no showing your teeth"

[LisaM]

2. As a kid, I liked Monopoly, then Euchre.

Now I like Bananagrams, Boggle, and Trivial Pursuit.

I would probably like Scrabble if it weren't for the stupid Scrabble dictionary with words like "aa" and "qi" that Scrabble players memorize and insist are real words.

[JT45242]

3. Power grid adult

Risk as a kid....

Also loved the variant deck building games like Dominion and DC deck building which reward strategy over money (unlike magic the gathering).

The Harry Potter TCG had a great mechanic and the best cards were frequently uncommon and not super rare so extra cash didn't help.

[Effete Snob]

4. I suppose there is a new name for it now

I used to like the game where one person has a football and attempts to stay away from everyone else who is trying to tackle the person with the football.

It had an offensive name, which I imagine has been changed.

[JT45242]

6. Kill the man with the ball...

[Effete Snob]

12. Ah, you'd think it would be something more creative

Like "football tag" or something.

[debm55]

9. flag football?

[Effete Snob]

13. No, this is much less organized than that

There are no teams. There is no scoring. There is one person with a ball who is attempting to avoid being tackled by the entirety of other persons there.

[debm55]

16. dog pile? When I taught 5th grade all grades were assigned different colored balls. There was a

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a popular game at recess where one boy would get the ball and the others would try to catch him. When they caught him they would pile up on him They called it the dog pile game. That ended one day when the ball deflated. So they threw it away. The cheap principal yelled over the loud speaker--what happened to the blue ball. You are not getting anymore blue balls until the missing blue ball is found. I laughed. Being a nun, I don't think she knew what a blue ball was.

[Effete Snob]

37. That was essentially the game play

Yep. Mainly an opportunity to test how tough or crazy you are. Probably a better name.

A “dog pile” in our neck of the woods could be declared without a ball under various circumstances, such as someone acting like a jerk. No ball required.

[Ocelot II]

18. Keep-Away?

[Ocelot II]

25. Killerball or Bombardment?

In grade school we played a chaotic game called Bombardment in which each team had multiple softish balls that they threw more or less randomly at the other team. If you got hit by one of the balls you were out - it was a last man standing game.

[Effete Snob]

38. This was essentially a football running/tackling drill

It had a name which would be very offensive now, but I was unaware of the offensive definition of the key word at the time.

My curiosity is whether the game still exists, because surely it would not be played under that name.

Or, it could have gone the way of “buck buck” which is a similar sort of rough game that can result in injuries.

[Baggies]

32. Played it many times.

It’s a shame the name can’t be said here because all you’d be doing is giving an accurate reflection of what it was called, you wouldn’t be saying it to be offensive. But such is this site.

I was one who wanted the football to try and get away. There were a lot who played who were scared to take the ball, they just wanted to take cheap shots at others while never taking the risk.

[Effete Snob]

36. That was the fun aspect of it

Yep. I couldn’t catch a pass to save my life, but it was good for running and dodging, and was a high impact game. Staying in your feet while a bunch of others are trying to take you down is a feeling of triumph.

It could get rough, but yeah, not to take a turn, but still wanting to play was an obvious character flaw.

[Wicked Blue]

5. Chess as a kid and young adult

Solitaire fot the past decade or so

[unweird]

7. Semi ditto

Still a fan of chess but prefer human over machine opponents. And few folks play though wife is learning. She refuses the concession of pieces to try and even the playing field which leads to mostly losses which are discouraging. But she’s game at times to give it a go.

[debm55]

10. Never got into chess, too hard for me, but I play checkers.

[unweird]

11. It can be difficult to learn

Mastering chess is on a whole different level. I’m a hack but recognize how difficult it is to learn hence my suggestion for the dominant player to take some of their pieces off the board from the start as a handicap. I learned at five from my mother who removed her queen, queen bishop, queen knight and queen rook.

[GenXer47]

8. Badminton

[frogmarch]

14. Stretch-em (also called Stick-em)

In the early 1950s, when I was 9 and 10, my neighborhood pals and I took turns throwing knives into the ground, near each other's bare feet. The target kid of each game moved a hand or foot to where the knife was, and then it was his or her (ok, I was the only girl) to throw the knife. It was an early version of Twister.

Sometimes my mom's favorite paring knife was The Knife. A few times, it got bloody, so I rinsed it under the kitchen sink faucet, dried it on my shirt, and put it away. Mom never knew, but a time or two she wondered why I was wearing socks with my sandals, and why I was limping.

[debm55]

15. Wasn't that dangerous? I'll stick with twister.

[Marthe48]

29. My husband and his siblings

had a pile of bricks they built up into a wall and then take turns shoving it over on each other. No name but your post reminded me ofthe story

[Effete Snob]

39. Yep

There were a range of “throw sharp objects with the risk of getting hit” games derived from Mumblety Peg.

[Harker]

17. Dodgeball as a school kid...

Tennis and softball as an adult.

Now, because of injuries and arthritis, my favorite game is fetch, with me throwing and Tosca and Lily doing the retrieving. We all enjoy it.

[debm55]

20. Dodgeball was nasty at my school. Until, they made the rule--no hitting above the neck.

[Harker]

21. I don't remember whether we had limitations (mid 1960s), but I don't recall anyone getting their

faces rearranged, either.

[debm55]

23. The girls in my gym class would throw that ball like a MLB pitcher.Even after the new rules.

the soccer ball we used still stung. Maybe it was because she picked a captain of only one team and the rest were on the second team. Thought that was unfair. Should have picked two captains so the teams were more evenly matched.

[Harker]

26. Ooh, a soccer ball sounds brutal.

We used those ubiquitous red rubbery ones.

[debm55]

28. It was.

[Mr.Bill]

19. Lawn Darts

[Baggies]

34. LOL

Jarts

[IcyPeas]

22. as a kid in the 60s we played outside all the time with all the neighborhood kids...

we'd play things like red rover and running bases. might have been an east coast thing.

As an adult, I've been playing Words With Friends for years.

I used to have this game: LOL

[debm55]

24. I remember the game and the song. Open the door for mystery date. Wasn't there a nerd date?

[Marthe48]

27. Hide and seek

When we were kids, it was fun to play inside or out. When our kids were young, I think we played it, but maybe they played hide and seek with their cousins. My husband and I played it with the grandkids, and we all had a great time.

I still like playing Scrabble. I like any word games.

I liked games no one else wanted to play. There was a verbal game called Links, and any number of people could sit in. One person would say a word, and then the next person would say a word that somehow related to the first word. It could mean the same things, or rhyme, could be a pun, just depended on who was playing how creative it got. We played it a few times, but usually everyone had ingested something, so they didn't track lol

There was a game called Blackbox, for 2 players. One person would mark places on a card that corresponded to the game board. The other person would call out coordinates and there were colored chips you'd put along the edge of the board, depicting a hit, miss or reflection. I liked it, but no one else would play. I still have the whole game.

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. As a kid - can't remember; as an adult - Taboo (Password-type game)

My sister and I were Taboo champions among our family/friends for the longest time. No one could beat us. One of our friends dubbed us "The Evil Empire."

[debm55]

31. Help we here. please, What was the name of the game where you drew something and your partner had to

guess what it was,said. Burt Reynolds and Burt Convey brought the game to television. I keep thinking Pictionary put I don't think that was it.

[Baggies]

33. Tough one

As a kid, I liked playing Candyland, tho I would get upset if I got the Hearts and had to go back to the bottom.

As I got older, say teenage years, probably Monopoly and Risk. Risk could take days to play, so while enjoyable, it could drag out.

Now, it’s Hearts or Spades. Maybe Pinochle if I can find people who know how to play.

[LeftInTX]

35. Ask a kid: Chinese Jump Rope

I would hook up the rope to a chair at home and practice

Now: Wordle

[debm55]

41. Oh yes, I remember Chinese jump rope. you could buy or do as we would do and cut a

bag of rubber bands in half and tie the ends all together to form the circle. Fun.

[rurallib]

40. pick up basketball games at the rec center

[LudwigPastorius]

42. A few...

Board Games:
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Operation

Battleship

Twixt (one of those 3M board games)



Dune (an Avalon Hill game I wish I'd kept. Original ones are going for over a hundred bucks now.)



Win, Place, & Show (another 3M game that, I'm surprised, did NOT turn me into a degenerate gambler)



Card Games:
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Poker

Baccarat

Party Games:
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Charades

Outdoor Games:
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Swing the Statue

Hide and Seek

Football (usually ended up being 2 on 2 or 3 on 3)